Talking about panels these are mine and I prefer 4.8 as I think the columns option in 4.10 is a work in progress.

Above the dotted separator are the windows button and below are 3 custom menus that live in a folder on my data partition with a sym link to "/home/ukbrian/menus" so all the OS's on my machine use the same menus. If anyone is interested I'll upload a snapshot of sr1 with a custom menu but I think I'm the only one treading this path.

What I'm doing with custom menus can be done by adding a launcher to the panel and adding the items but you have to do it every time you do a fresh install whereas I've been using the same menus for 2 years just by adding a menu to the panel and pointing at the menu I want.

@ukbrianI like the panel on the right. Have done that myself a time or two.

I like mine on top better though. I "stack" my launchers too. Used to use gnome and it took 2 panels to do what I can do with one with Xfce.

I am not using any of the added functionality in the 4.10 panel. You don't have to have more than 1 row. With one row the thing is the same as the 4.8 panel.

Having used multiple gnome panels (2) I can see why folks may like the rows option. You just don't need all that room though if you stack your launchers.

I have 8 that I use. Most of them are rarely used. 3 contain just about everything I normally need to have 6 workstations populated with different projects (right now I am lazy and there are only 5 in use).

@widget I started using the launchers in the panel but quickly got tired of having to build them with each fresh install and noticed that xfce unlike the other desktops allowed you to have more than one menu so I ended up creating my own nearly 2 years ago and I've been using them ever since, a perfect example of write once, use many times. also the menu folder is on my data partition so all the OS's on my machine use the same menus so easy maintenance.

You might be interested in this video of creating a menu from scratch, the video is compressed with xz from 173 MB to 53 MB but renamed to zip as firefox handles zip files better and they uncompress without changing the extension.

There is a menu editor GUI written in python I think could be tweaked to edit them but they really aren't difficult to edit.

editVideo was 173 MBzipped was 144 MBxz was 50 MB

edit suspected virus links removed

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ukbrian wrote:@widget I started using the launchers in the panel but quickly got tired of having to build them with each fresh install and noticed that xfce unlike the other desktops allowed you to have more than one menu so I ended up creating my own nearly 2 years ago and I've been using them ever since, a perfect example of write once, use many times. also the menu folder is on my data partition so all the OS's on my machine use the same menus so easy maintenance.

This interests me too as one of the biggest time wasters for me has been having to set everything up again with a new release and when Unity was released on Ubuntu it wasn't a good time to be forced into learning a new system once again. Even the novelty of novelties wears thin after a while.

ukbrian wrote:You might be interested in this video of creating a menu from scratch, the video is compressed with xz from 173 MB to 53 MB but renamed to zip as firefox handles zip files better and they uncompress without changing the extension.edit: potential virus links removed

Can you not upload them to youtube?It would make these ideas much more accessible to the whole community.Also I am very wary of downloading stuff as I have had a lot of problems with spyware over the years.

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I had to remove my 64bit install due to system starting to get "laggy" and slow after the ram usage got up around the 50% mark. Started seeing graphic artifacts when dragging windows around. I am currently back on my SolusOS install and I do not see these same issues. As of this posting the CUP's are at 65% and humming along nicely with none of the mentioned symptoms.

kwisher wrote:I had to remove my 64bit install due to system starting to get "laggy" and slow after the ram usage got up around the 50% mark. Started seeing graphic artifacts when dragging windows around. I am currently back on my SolusOS install and I do not see these same issues. As of this posting the CUP's are at 65% and humming along nicely with none of the mentioned symptoms.

kwisher wrote:I had to remove my 64bit install due to system starting to get "laggy" and slow after the ram usage got up around the 50% mark. Started seeing graphic artifacts when dragging windows around. I am currently back on my SolusOS install and I do not see these same issues. As of this posting the CUP's are at 65% and humming along nicely with none of the mentioned symptoms.

kwisher wrote:I had to remove my 64bit install due to system starting to get "laggy" and slow after the ram usage got up around the 50% mark. Started seeing graphic artifacts when dragging windows around. I am currently back on my SolusOS install and I do not see these same issues. As of this posting the CUP's are at 65% and humming along nicely with none of the mentioned symptoms.

Thanks, kwisher, but now that you've gone over to the dark side it'll be difficult to track down the cause of your increased ram and cpu usage. Pity, because they can be very interesting...

I don't believe the problem was related to a memory leak or such. The issue would appear as I used more resources. I always keep one Win-7 VM running at all times. Firefox is running with at least 6-8 tabs open. I have Remmina open connected to at least 3-4 Windows servers. With these apps running the cpu usage usually is around 45%. When I start another VM the cpu usage would usually be around 65% and this is when the sluggish behavior and the graphics issue would happen.

Sorry I did not think to post this issue earlier while it was running.

The instructions suggested Windows XP or better, so I installed Linux :)

Hi All,I've been following this project from the start and I've finally got a chance to try out the live disk! It all works very nicely and I want to thank everyone for all the work put into this release. I have one problem, I can't seem to connect wirelessly. WICD shows my network and I put in the correct pass key for WPA2 account and a guest account but it bounces back incorrect password. Any ideas?

One more happy (French) user here, great job Schoelje (already told you in PM last time) and thanks to all of you for your help

What do you think about MenuLibre? (https://launchpad.net/menulibre)One very little thing that I noticed on my system (only mine ?), I can't set elementary xubuntu dark icons, not important to me, I use Faenza ones.

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One more happy (French) user here, great job Schoelje (already told you in PM last time) and thanks to all of you for helping

What do you think about MenuLibre? (https://launchpad.net/menulibre)One very little thing that I noticed on my system (only mine ?), I can't set elementary xubuntu dark icons, not important to me, I use Faenza ones.

Hi wizard97_4, welcome to the Linux Mint forum.I'm glad you like the unofficial LMDE Xfce.Unfortunately I don't have any experience with the xubuntu dark icons, but because you already stated you're using Faenza's it's not that big a problem.